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Volume 13 · pp. 387–388
XLI. Thirteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer
XLI. Dominica decima tertia post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Beati oculi qui vident quae vos videtis 1. Domine Jesu Christe, qui per visionem contemplationis, et tranquillitatem religionis discipulos tuos praegustare facis initium aeternae claritatis et pacis: ut in praesenti secundum quid, et in futuro simpliciter sint beati: quod multis potentibus multisque prudentibus saeculi negatur, qui Deum videre quaerunt per curiositatem, surgunt per superbiam, tentant per nequitiam, justificant se per simulationem, Scripturam de recte vivendo consulunt et intelligunt, sed non faciunt dum proximum ignorant: custodi nos descendentes de studio contemplationis ad exercitium bonae actionis, ne incidamus in latrones quinque sensuum appetitus, ne spoliemur gratuitis, ne vulneremur in naturalibus. Sacerdos et levita, superior et inferior portio rationis, non descendant eadem via consentiendo in peccatum, sed potius per contemplationem ascendant. Samaritanus vero gratia praedestinationis iter faciens nobiscum secus nos appropiet, nobis liget vulnera nostra, fluxum concupiscentiae restringendo pannis humilitatis tuae, infundens oleum spem veniae, et vinum timorem justitiae: imponat in jumentum, ordinando rationem supra sensualitatem: ducat in stabulum in consideratione peccatorum: altera die spei det duos denarios poenitentiae, gaudium scilicet dolori, et quietem labori: vel altera die resurrectionis stolam corporis et animae, vel cognitionem divinitatis et humanitatis tuae. Amen.
XLI. Thirteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. Blessed are the eyes that see the things that you see 1. Lord Jesus Christ, who through the vision of contemplation and the tranquility of religion make your disciples taste beforehand the beginning of eternal clarity and peace, so that in the present in a certain respect, and in the future simply, they may be blessed; which is denied to many powerful persons and many prudent persons of the world, who seek to see God through curiosity, rise through pride, tempt through wickedness, justify themselves through simulation, consult and understand Scripture concerning living rightly, but do not do it while they ignore the neighbor: guard us as we descend from the zeal of contemplation to the exercise of good action, lest we fall among the robbers of the appetite of the five senses, lest we be stripped of gratuitous things, lest we be wounded in natural things. Let priest and Levite, the higher and lower portion of reason, not descend by the same way by consenting to sin, but rather ascend through contemplation. But let the Samaritan, the grace of predestination, making the journey with us, draw near beside us; let him bind up our wounds, restraining the flow of concupiscence with the cloths of your humility, pouring in oil, the hope of pardon, and wine, the fear of justice; let him place us on the beast, by ordering reason above sensuality; let him lead us into the stable, into consideration of sins; on the other day of hope let him give two denarii of penitence, namely joy to sorrow and rest to labor; or on the other day of resurrection, the robe of body and soul, or the knowledge of your divinity and humanity. Amen.
Notes
- Compare Luke 10:23-37; Matthew 13:16 and 17. (Cf. Luc. X, 23-37. Matth. XIII, 16 et 17.) ↩
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